Safety-bulletin box



JAMES B. DOUGLAS, or swAR'rHr/ronE, rENNsYLvAnIA.'

sAFETY BULLETIN "BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 16, 1919.

Application filed January 5, 1918. Serial No. 210,493.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES B. DOUGLAS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Swarthmore, in the county of Delaware and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Safety-Bulletin Box, of which the following is a specification.

In furtherance of the campaign for accident protection, safety-bulletins are issued and distributed throughout most factories, works, plants and like places.

It is the principal object of the present invention to provide for publishing such bulletins and other notices and the like including lantern slides to workmen and others towhom they are addressed and to emphasize this publication by forcibly attracting the attention of workmen-and others to the bulletins and like publications. Another object of the invention is to provide for the receipt of such suggestions as may occur to workmen and employees in the line 7 of accident avoidance or prevention.

The invention will be claimed at the end hereof, but will be first described in connection with the embodiment of it, chosen from other embodiments, for illustration in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1, is a top or plan view of a safety bulletin box embodying features of the invention.

Fig. 2, is a front view of the same, and

Fig. 3, is a transverse central section.

In the drawings .1 is an opaque housing having its ends converging toward its front and having windows 2, in its ends and windows 3 and 4 in its front. 5, is a hinged lid for the housing and it is provided with a slot 6. The lid 5, slopes or slants from the rear wall of the housing downward toward the front and its side edges converge toward the front of the housing. 7, is a receptacle in the housing arranged beneath the slot.

a and b, are translucent bulletins arranged at the windows and they can be printed or displayed upon translucent paper, glass or the like, and they may present printed matter' or pictures, or both. 8, are devices,

shown as flanges, arranged at the bottoms and sides of the windows for detachably holding the bulletins, which can be inserted and removed through the opening of the housing that is provided with the lid 5, so as to change them from time to time. 9, is an electric lamp in the housing for constantly illuminating the bulletins and it is provided with a high-low device 10 for periodically increasing the brilliancy of the illumination of thebulletins to attract attention to them. The device 10 is a well known article of commerce and it is interposed in the lamp circuit 11, and serves to automatically control the circuit in such a way that the lamp is always lighted, but

shines more brilliantly at some intervals than it does at others. 12, is a switch, accessible from the exterior of the front of the housing for lighting and extinguishing the lamp.

The device may be suspended as by the openings 13, or otherwise supported in some place where the workmen and. employees congregate or are assembled. The rear wall extends above the lid and its edges converge toward its center, thus forming an ear in which the openings 18, can be made or provided. Appropriate bulletins are arranged in the windows in the manner described and the bulletins are changed from time to time. Inasmuch as the lamp is always burning it serves to illuminate the translucent bulletins, which are well displayed in contrast with the opaque walls of the housing, and can be easily read and examined. The increasing and decreasing brilliancy of the lamp, while not interfering with the illumination of the translucent bulletins, serves to forcibly attract attention to the bulletins.

Employees and workmen write such sug-' gestions as may occur to them uponsuitable cards which are dropped through the slot 6 and fall into the receptacle 7, which separates them from the lamp box, and from this receptacle they can be collected and if necessary put in the form of translucent bulletins and displayed at the windows.

lVhat I claim is: r A safety bulletin box comprising the combination of a generally oblong opaque lamp a hinged lid covering and aifording access housing having windows in its front and t0 the bulletins and the receptacle and the end Walls, devices at the bottoms and sides chamber, and a slit provided in tlie lid in 10 of the Windows for holding translucent bulalinement with the receptacle, substantially 5 letins, translucent bulletins, a lamp chainas described.

ber and a relatively small receptacle in superposed relation provided in the housing, JAMES B. DOUGLAS. 

